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So. The Logo network. I like it a lot; it tends to actually be a really mixed bag of stuff, because they will air anything that portrays LGBTQ people in a somewhat positive way. Which is kind of a shallow pool. I've seen some rather clunky movies on the network, but I've been SUPER impressed by a couple I've seen on the network recently.
There's Drool, which is... I don't know. Like a mix of Veronica Mars & Pushing Daisies set in the southern United States. Which is to say, it has a very dream-like unreality quality, which leads to a lot of humor, but there's a layer of truth & grittyness underneath that sometimes pokes through. The story is told in an extravagant and flamboyant way, but there is subtlety and some very nicely done moments of restraint that really resonate. Plus, how many movies are narrated by a teenage girl telling the story of her mother's sexual awakening? Also, it has Oded Fehr.
And then, AND THEN, there's Spork, which is probably the most perfect movie I have seen in a long time. Like, I cried, you guys. It's like Napoleon Dynamite but 80 million times better and with more dancing and Wizard of Oz metaphors. I want to say that it's a coming of age story, but it's not, not really, with what that term has come to mean. It's not about a priveleged white boy acting all angry & then realizing he's got nothing to be angry about; the teens in this movie have heavy, why-get-out-of-bed-in-the-morning problems. Also it has Penny (Natural Causes) from Dead Like Me & Marianne Marie Beattle from Wonderfalls/Pushing Daisies! And Roxy Wasserman from The Middleman! I could talk about this movie a lot more, you guys. But I won't. Unless any of you watch it & then want to talk about it. :D OH I LIED ONE MORE THING -- it has basically my new favorite line from a movie, said beratingly during an argument: "I read it on TV!"
There's Drool, which is... I don't know. Like a mix of Veronica Mars & Pushing Daisies set in the southern United States. Which is to say, it has a very dream-like unreality quality, which leads to a lot of humor, but there's a layer of truth & grittyness underneath that sometimes pokes through. The story is told in an extravagant and flamboyant way, but there is subtlety and some very nicely done moments of restraint that really resonate. Plus, how many movies are narrated by a teenage girl telling the story of her mother's sexual awakening? Also, it has Oded Fehr.
And then, AND THEN, there's Spork, which is probably the most perfect movie I have seen in a long time. Like, I cried, you guys. It's like Napoleon Dynamite but 80 million times better and with more dancing and Wizard of Oz metaphors. I want to say that it's a coming of age story, but it's not, not really, with what that term has come to mean. It's not about a priveleged white boy acting all angry & then realizing he's got nothing to be angry about; the teens in this movie have heavy, why-get-out-of-bed-in-the-morning problems. Also it has Penny (Natural Causes) from Dead Like Me & Marianne Marie Beattle from Wonderfalls/Pushing Daisies! And Roxy Wasserman from The Middleman! I could talk about this movie a lot more, you guys. But I won't. Unless any of you watch it & then want to talk about it. :D OH I LIED ONE MORE THING -- it has basically my new favorite line from a movie, said beratingly during an argument: "I read it on TV!"